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City hosp carries out breast reconstruction just after mastectomy
- | Tuesday | 15th January, 2019
Coimbatore: A 37-year-old woman diagnosed with multiple cancerous tumours in both her breasts, had them reconstructed immediately after her mastectomy. The woman wanted to get her breasts reconstructed immediately if it was possible. “Oncologist Dr Vimala Kannan informed the patient that she had been diagnosed with multiple cancerous tumours in both her breast and recommended that she get them both removed completely,” said oncoplastic breast surgeon, Dr Raja Shanmuga Krishnan. The tissue was shaped like a breast and the nipple was created. In the same surgery, we removed her breasts and reconstructed them with some tissue we removed from her inner thighs,” he said.The doctors wanted to create awareness that cancer can be treated in a reconstructed breast too.
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